It's frenetic and fun, even when the kids are plotting to kill their parents. There's strong voice work from Will Forte, Alessia Cara, Jane Krakowski, Martin Short and Terry Crews but Gervais and his droll narration steals the show. All my folks ever did for me was lick my eyeballs open and sent me packing." "It's hard to leave home for the first time," he says, "although I was six days old when I left. "The Willoughbys" isn't remarkably original story wise. It mixes and matches from a variety of sources. There's a taste of Roald Dahl, a hint of "Despicable Me" and a dollop of "Mary Poppins," but, all spun together, they form a delightfully dark (but not too dark) story about finding the true value of family. "We've always belonged to a synagogue," says Karen Mason. "Although the synagogues never knew what we were doing." In fact, Mason kept her business a secret from almost everyone, including her kids Rachel, Micah and Josh.